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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?
(a) Alex Pryor.
(b) Bob Protexter.
(c) David Kauffman.
(d) Richard Spooner.

2. How did the Baltic republics win their independence?
(a) Stubornness.
(b) Execution of Party leaders.
(c) Intervention from the West.
(d) Violence.

3. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?
(a) For writing a book about literature.
(b) For writing a book about language.
(c) For suggesting that ethnic languages be left alone.
(d) For suggesting the restoration of the letter "yat" to the Russian language.

4. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?
(a) Pakistan.
(b) Poland.
(c) Germany.
(d) India.

5. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?
(a) Helped them become traders.
(b) Destroyed their culture.
(c) Helped them become farmers.
(d) Committed genocide.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?

2. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?

3. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?

4. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?

5. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?

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